About

RickB- Human, Artist, Fool.

Ynys Mon, UK.

The blog is called ten percent because of what Kurt Vonnegut wrote when remembering Susan Sontag - She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.-

And I'm writing it because I need the therapy and I lust for world domination.

Share this:

Like this:

Related

12 Responses to “Electioneering”

Without any specific knowledge, it would seem likely that Labor would lose the seat to the Welsh party.

It makes me wonder if there will be a “hung parliament.” (funny term) I also wonder why it’s such a big deal in the UK if no one party gets a majority. Coalition governments are perfectly normal in most parliamentary democracies.

Yeah, that would have legs too, the main thing is- no tories, and some coalition that stops NL getting away with murder, there is no good result, all are neoliberal shills, some are worse than that (tory bigots) a hung environment where individual actual left wing and progressive MP’s gain some power.
I hope Plaid’s progressives get wise to the conservatives lurking under the cover of nationalism too!

Especially because 4) is dead! It’s all an exercise in balancing lesser evilism so is very hard to get excited about, I keep coming back to the poison metaphor, we are just uncertain which chalice the poison will be served to us in, our votes can change the vessel but not the content appreciably. Comes to something when the supposed Labour party is saying ‘cuts deeper than Thatcher’, LibDems Clegg thinks unions are as evil as Goldman Sachs and yes will ally themselves with whichever bunch wins and Tories, who look more like a Public School reunion disco than ever. A hung that excludes tories is the least worst result probably. <which is really not saying much.
Oh yeah and Labour rammed through the digi bill the same week they announce the election as if to emphasise the contempt they have for public opinion and their confidence corporate media will cover their back. And whoever wins, Mandelson & Blair will still be getting rich as fuck (and Mandelson has said he will work with Tories, he knows how to play the field).